Baggio, Clark, & Dervin

• Note key ideas you drew from each author and why they were significant to your thinking about where to go next. How might these ideas influence your journey to addressing your driving question.
  • ​BAGGIO (Chapters 3-5)
    • ​Key Idea 1: We cannot retrieve information or knowledge that has not gone into our memory
    • Key Idea 2: Utilize technologies by matching the affordances with the way we know that people are most likely to take in information
    • Key Idea 3: The jury is still out on the true implications of learning style theories and the effect of learning styles on your ability to learn.
    • Where to go next in terms of influencing my journey as I look to answer my question: In answering my question summative and state assessments will help truly determine if the knowledge was committed to memory. Although primarily independent of technology, the notion of fitting technology is something that resonates with me on many fronts. Lastly, and yes I know this lacks coherence, visual learning is impacted/painted by the context of the seer. To this end I am reminded of the old History Alive curriculum that utilized Bloome level questioning in analyzing historical images. Truly effective but highly structured and still with variable results. Ergo, how do I utilize imagery while ensuring informational buildup 
  • CLARK
    • ​​Key Idea 1: It is instructional methods not media that impact learning
    • Key Idea 2: Learning is facilitated by application level-practice
    • Key Idea 3: The Content-Performance Matrix includes 5 types of content: facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles
    • Where to go next in terms of influencing my journey as I look to answer my question: I must remain enamored with my question more than the tool I use to share the learnings from my question. Although not a fan of assumed replicability, I must consider the Content-Performance Matrix in communicating my content as it increases the contextual understanding for users. 
  • DERVIN​
    • ​Key Idea 1: Sense-making: What do they want? What do they get? What do they think about what they get?
    • Key Idea 2: Overcoming the discontinuity constant through trust.
    • Key Idea 3: Human systems need to be studied from the observer, not actor, as it assumes system's essential order and need for observer to bend
    • Where to go next in terms of influencing my journey as I look to answer my question: I must make sure that the user voice remains at the fore and that data from users is gathered in a safe and growth producing manner knowing it will be perceived and interpreted by actors who are responsible for bending per user needs and wants.
• What do you think your big driving question is now? 
  • ​Honestly, I really cannot comprehend that question given the multifaceted and overly broad question I attempted to address in my initial action research. The more I learn, the more questions I have.
    
• What are your new “need-to-knows”?
  • ​I need to know how to truly narrow my question for the sake of what I am learning in this program and for the benefit of our students.